Michael, Not entirely clear to me. Are you asking for a rough outline of the history and transmission of various manuscripts and ancient versions? Or are you...
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Edward Andrews
tyndal_e
Jan 7, 2010 7:43 pm
Dear Michael Welch: I want to recommend, what I feel to be the best intro book of all time, How We Got The Bible, by Neil R. Lightfoot. Edward Andrews Liberty...
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Michael Welch
lmlkes
Jan 7, 2010 8:43 pm
Dear Dr./Mr. Lord, Hi!!! Both would be wonderful. Does the LXX originate from around 250 B.C.? Also, I want to Thank Drs./Mr.(s) Mac Donald, Koavf, and Andrews...
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koavf
Jan 7, 2010 9:17 pm
It was begun by the third century BCE and completed before 132 BCE. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXX -JAK...
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Miles Jones
milesjns
Jan 7, 2010 9:26 pm
James, I am suprized you are missing out on the most important breakthrough in modern biblical archaeology, the investigation of the inscriptions at the...
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Michael Welch
lmlkes
Jan 7, 2010 9:46 pm
Dear Dr./Mr. Jones, Hi!!! Do you happen to know what language these inscriptions are written in? Also, Thank You Dr./Mr. Koavf for the LXX dates. I Thank you...
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Michael Janapin
mhacj
Jan 7, 2010 11:00 pm
For the Hebrew Bible, try reading How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualization of Ancient Israel by William M. Schniedewind Cambridge University Press,...
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Michael Welch
lmlkes
Jan 7, 2010 11:23 pm
Dear Dr. Janapin, Hi!!! I will definitely have to order this one. I remember talking to Dr. Schniedewind in November of 1985 when we were waiting near...
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Michael Welch
lmlkes
Jan 8, 2010 1:58 am
Dear Members, Hi!!! Dr. Jim West just had some breaking news via Dr. Joseph I. Lauer. Professor Gershon Galil of the University of Haifa has deciphered the...
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Christopher Heard
rcheard
Jan 8, 2010 2:40 am
Michael, Thank you for sharing the link. However, the link you provided was slightly malformed. Here is the corrected link: ...
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Jack Kilmon
jkilmon_2000
Jan 8, 2010 3:11 am
... From: "Michael Welch" <lmlkes@...> Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 7:58 PM To: <biblicalist@yahoogroups.com> Subject: [biblicalist] 10th Century...
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Miles Jones
milesjns
Jan 8, 2010 4:02 am
My book on the subject, The Writing of God, is being released next week. The inscriptions are in ancient Hebrew and written in the oldest known alphabet of...
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George F Somsel
gfsomsel
Jan 8, 2010 4:20 am
Some of the concepts which he ascribes as peculiar to Hebrew ethic are not in the least their sole property at the time. In Ugarit the Legend of Kirta has...
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Yitzhak Sapir
ysapir
Jan 8, 2010 5:53 am
Dr. Galil's reading is very interesting. It seems to me that he apparently reads it as follows: אל תעש ועבד אל שפט עבד ואלמנ. שפט...
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Yitzhak Sapir
ysapir
Jan 8, 2010 6:02 am
... Another possibility that may address some of the issues of the rather odd form of יתשפט is that the reading was אל ישפט which was then corrected...
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George F Somsel
gfsomsel
Jan 8, 2010 7:54 am
I think you are correct to be cautious regarding the word אלמן being obviously Hebrew in view of Ugaritic. 190.ulmn‘widowhood’ (52:9) || ṯkl; cf....
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George F Somsel
gfsomsel
Jan 8, 2010 8:08 am
I might also note that there are similar cognates to that cited with regard to אלמן for עשׂה and עבד which the article cites to support the...
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Yitzhak Sapir
ysapir
Jan 8, 2010 10:32 am
This was advertised now in a Israeli newspaper with the Hebrew reading as follows: אל תעשו (כזאת) ועבדו את ה שפטו עבד ואלמנה...
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Michael Welch
lmlkes
Jan 8, 2010 11:16 am
Dear Drs. Heard, Kilmon, Somsel and Sapir, Hi!!! The language of this ostracon may be difficult to figure out precisely but apparently the archaeology of the...
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funhistory
Jan 9, 2010 5:19 am
I sent a new drawing to the moderators for upload to the Biblicalist library, which y'all should have access to soon. I thought it might be helpful for people...
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funhistory
Jan 9, 2010 5:49 am
... Sorry for the belated response, Mike, but here's a Great Site where you can not only get a general overview of the English Bible's history from Moses to...
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Jack Kilmon
jkilmon_2000
Jan 9, 2010 6:50 am
I think that the association between Israel and the ostracon is a matter for more debate. I don't know what "Hebrew" was in the 10th century BCE but I am just...
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Yitzhak Sapir
ysapir
Jan 9, 2010 8:31 pm
Anyone coming from the Web having trouble with the Hebrew, can change the encoding on the browser to UTF-8. I'm sorry for that. I've written another post now...
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Kevin P. Edgecomb
kedgecom2002
Jan 9, 2010 10:09 pm
The file George mentions is available now. It's named qeiyafa-grena_3.gif, and may be found in this folder: ...
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Michael Welch
lmlkes
Jan 12, 2010 1:43 am
Dear Members, Hi!!! In Genesis 4:1-5, it talks about Cain and Abel being born(vss.1&2). Cain is a tiller of the soil, and Abel is a keeper of the sheep(vs.2)....
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Michael Janapin
mhacj
Jan 12, 2010 1:59 am
Hello Michael, I don't think we can arrive at an "assured result" on this one if we are to be really honest. So to answer frankly, I don't think anyone with...
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George F Somsel
gfsomsel
Jan 12, 2010 2:27 am
This is traditionally viewed as a conflict between the settled and the nomadic (the ranchers and the farmers in the old American West). It may have arisen...
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Christopher Heard
rcheard
Jan 12, 2010 3:21 am
... George Somsel and Michael Janapin have already helped out a bit on this one. It is a difficult question, one of the perennial issues. In addition to the...
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funhistory
Jan 12, 2010 4:14 am
... I agree with Michael Janapin, that we can't know with full certainty the reason. That being acknowledged, I look to verse 7 as the reason that harmonizes...
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funhistory
Jan 12, 2010 4:39 am
... All of the creation was cursed in Gen 3:14-19 -- the animals, the people, and the ground. We know this from the 2 "more than" qualifying statements in...
